Food Safety 

Advancing the health and well-being of animals and people


Food Safety

Research at the College of Veterinary Medicine meets the clinical and research demands of human and animal health. Consistently ranked among the top veterinary colleges in the country, the College leads in scientific discovery. Faculty expertise focuses on the interface between scientific research and clinical practice as well as a commitment to animal and human health.

 

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Craig Altier
Craig Altier

 

Environmental cues of the intestinal tract that induce virulence gene expression in Salmonella; Defining the genetic pathways by which environmental signals are communicated in Salmonella to cause changes in virulence gene expression; genetic and genomic approaches to characterize this regulon
Dairy production medicine; Bacteriology; prevention and treatment of infection; Antibiotic therapies in livestock

 

 

Epidemiological and mathematical modeling, genetic analysis and economic methods

 

 

Cell and microbe interactions; facultative intracellular Gram-positive bacterium Listeria monocytogenes
Enterobacteriaceae and the microbial ecology of the intestinal tract; virulence mechanisms and pathogenesis of enteric bacterial infections, immunity to Salmonella infections; Salmonella epidemiology and control programs; antimicrobial resistance in bacteria; development of new diagnostic assays and media for use in veterinary clinical microbiology; development of biosensors for the rapid detection of microorganisms

 

Diseases of multiple species, defining epidemiology and risk factors for diseases; epidemiology of infectious diseases; quantitative and analytical epidemiology; veterinary public health and food safety; production medicine
Quality milk production services

 

Production animal agriculture and public health at the population level

Schukken

 

Epidemiological, statistical and mathematical methods to animal disease involving well managed dairy herds

Michael J. Stanhope
Michael Stanhope

 

Application of molecular evolutionary biology principles and techniques within groups of bacterial pathogens

 

Dairy cattle epidemiology; preharvest food safety; Salmonellosis in cattle; infectious disease